Health
OU launches $9 million research collaboration with Peruvian University
Credit: The University of Oklahoma NORMAN, OKLA. - The University of Oklahoma has entered an agreement to develop a $9...
Robert Amdur, MD, named Editor in Chief of Practical Radiation Oncology
Credit: UF Health via Robert Amdur ARLINGTON, Va., January 15, 2020 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced...
Dr. Sallie Permar receives the SPR Award in honor of E. Mead Johnson
Credit: Dr. Sallie Permar HOUSTON, Jan. 15, 2020 - The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce Sallie...
Managing cannabis use in breastfeeding women
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 15, 2020--As more states legalize medicinal and recreational cannabis use...
Voluntary limit-setting can keep intense online gamblers in check
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 15, 2020--A new study has shown that, among online gamblers,...
Immigration and transition: Emerging trends in spina bifida care
In this collection of studies published in the Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine experts document the shifts in age and...
First randomized clinical trial found no harms from dementia screening in primary care
Dementia screening did not induce depression or anxiety in older adultsCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Research scientists at Regenstrief Institute...
Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults
High-fat milk consumption is connected to significantly shorter telomeresCredit: Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo A new study shows drinking low-fat milk --...
Study challenges concerns over hospital readmission reduction practices
UT Southwestern determines heart failure patients not at increased riskCredit: UTSW DALLAS - Jan. 15, 2020 - A UT Southwestern...
Newly created embryo nourishes hope for the survival of the northern white rhino
Credit: Ami Vitale In August 2019 a team of scientists and conservationists broke new ground in saving the northern white...
Involving family in bipolar care helps children and teens stay healthier, longer
Credit: UCLA Health In a UCLA-led study, children and adolescents with a high risk for developing bipolar disorder stayed healthier...
Study: Women’s blood vessels age faster than men’s
New research from the Smidt Heart Institute helps to explain why women tend to develop different types of heart disease...
Studies of membrane vesicles pave the way to innovative treatments of degenerative diseases
A paper came out in Cells in December 2019Credit: Kazan Federal University Research team leader Marina Gomzikova, employee of the...
How zebra finches learn to sing
Credit: Richard Hahnloser, ETH/UZH The ability to learn new motor skills is critical to almost all aspects of our lives....
More interventions follow gastric bypass than gastric sleeve, large study shows
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Jan. 15, 2020 - A study involving tens of thousands of bariatric surgery patients found that gastric...
Faster, cheaper tests for myopia possible
Leading cause of vision loss heads for epidemicCredit: ARVO The world's most common vision problem myopia or short/near sightedness, which...
Multimodal genomic analyses predict response to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients
Credit: Jennifer Fairman and Valsamo Anagnostou, Johns Hopkins University Researchers at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for...
UMass Amherst researchers identify new mechanism involved in promoting breast cancer
Study found two cosmetics chemicals damage DNA of breast cells at low dosesCredit: UMass Amherst A new approach to studying...
It’s 2020: Time to teach teens ‘safe’ sexting
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Preaching sexual abstinence to youth was popular for a number of decades, but research repeatedly found...
In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture
Novel imaging technologies produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction -- and abstinence -- change neural...
